In Favor of My Resilient Self- Effects of an Academic Course on the Emotional Resilience of Students.

Tel Hai College

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Preventive Therapy

Treatments: Behavioral: "In Favor of My Resilient Self" Academic course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04129892

Tel Hai

Details and patient eligibility

About

The course " In Favor of My Resilient Self" will guide participants to develop their strength sources, as well as practice self-calming and self-controlling exercises.

The main goals of the course are to:

1. Measure the effects on the emotional resilience and confidence of participants.
2. Assess differences in the course's affect on students from the faculty of sciences compared with students from the faculty of social studies.
3. Understand the mechanisms of the effects.

Results will be measured using the study questionnaire, to be filled out by the participants before, after, and three months after the completion of the course.

Full description

The online Bachelor's degree course " In Favor of My Resilient Self" provides updated information regarding the term 'emotional resilience' and its mediating factors. Through weekly lessons and assignments, it will guide participants to developing an internal perspective on their strength sources, as well as practice self-calming and self-controlling exercises.

The main goals of the course are to:

1. Measure the effects on the emotional resilience and confidence of participants.
2. Assess differences in the course's affect on students from the faculty of sciences compared with students from the faculty of social studies.
3. Understand the mechanisms of the effects.

Results will be measured using the study questionnaire, to be filled out by the participants before, after, and three months after the completion of the course. The questionnaire will include validated questionnaires with good psychometric qualities. The study protocol was approved by Tel Hai College institutional review board. All participants, in the intervention (course participants) and in the control group (students of both faculties that didn't attend the course), received information about the program and the study and were asked to provide informed consent.

Enrollment: 322 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students at Tel Hai College that are interested in participating in the study, and provided informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Students that did not provide informed consent to participate in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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322 participants in 2 patient groups

Course participants

Experimental group

Description:

Students that enroll in the Resilience-based course during their Bachelor of science or Bachelor of social studies.

Treatment:

Behavioral: "In Favor of My Resilient Self" Academic course

Control group- no intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Students in their Bachelor of science or Bachelor of social studies that did not attend the course, but agreed to fill out the study questionnaires.